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" The great attraction to 'American Gangster' is these two great characters who are absolute paradoxes within their own sphere. "

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" When I started the original 'Alien,' Ripley wasn't a woman, it was a guy. "

" I'm agnostic because I went through the usual process of parents insisting you go to church, and yet they didn't. So there's me, sitting in the chairs, thinking, 'Jeez, why am I here? I'd rather be playing tennis, seriously.' "

" I used to agonise over what to do next, but now I'm making a movie a year. It's insane, but it's only a movie after all. You just hang in there, and occasionally you might make something which you can call art... briefly. "

" When you're in the editing room, the dangerous thing is that it becomes like telling a joke again and again and again. Eventually, the joke starts to not be funny. So you have to be careful that you're not throwing the baby out with the bath water. "

" I've seen some of James Cameron's work, and I've got to go 3D. "

" By going to a preview, a director becomes insidiously infected by the process, so by the end of it, you're thinking, 'It may be a bit too long.' "

" Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict. "

" If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves. "

" People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at. "

" History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble the facts and then put them down on paper. "

" 'The Duellists' won Cannes, but Paramount didn't know how to release a film about two guys in bizarre breeches, waving swords around. I actually think it's a pretty good Western. "

" Technology will need to make many more huge leaps before one can ever view films with the level of picture and sound quality many film lovers demand without having to slide a disc into a player, especially with the technical requirements of today's 3D movies. "

" I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can be inert and study your navel, and gradually fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying. "

" I tend to watch a lot of lower-budget movies to find out what's doing down there and find out who's coming up. "

" What's interesting to me about Moses isn't the big stuff that everybody knows. "

" If you circle above Central Park at night in a helicopter, you're looking down at the most expensive real estate in the world. It's the American Monopoly board. "

" I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny. "

" Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns are about man against his own landscape. "

" Doing science fiction at a high level is tricky. It's really tricky. "

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" People have no idea how physically tough doing a film is. "

" I didn't want to go down the route of spending a year of my life making a movie that would never be seen. I may as well go down a route making a film that a lot of people will see, which is the whole idea behind cinema. "

" Do what you haven't done is the key, I think. "

" I want a certificate that allows me to make as big a box office as possible. "

" I do a pretty good job at casting actually. "

" I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different. "

" I think there are a lot of men who feel they're being emasculated by having the woman be in charge; I've never had that problem. "

" If studios don't get their money back, we don't have any movies. So it is important that films are successful, and I am fully supportive of that because I'm not just a director, I'm also not stupid. I've been in this business long enough and, to a certain extent, I'm a businessman; I know the importance of that. "

" Choosing location is integral to the film: in essence, another character. "